Database Lead | India
Photon · India
Senior Software Engineer – RDBMS & Google Cloud
- Role Overview
- We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer with strong expertise in RDBMS, SQL, Python, and Google Cloud Platform to design and build scalable, reliable data-intensive applications and cloud solutions.
Key Responsibilities
- Design and develop solutions using RDBMS, SQL, and data modeling best practices.
- Build cloud-native solutions using Google Cloud Spanner, Google Datastream, and Google Dataflow.
- Develop robust Python-based applications and data pipelines.
- Design data models, schemas, transformations, and data integration workflows.
- Work with change-data-capture (CDC), data synchronization, and distributed data processing.
- Develop, review, test, troubleshoot, and optimize production-quality code.
- Work with Git-based code repositories, branching strategies, pull requests, and code reviews.
- Manage and contribute to CI/CD and release pipelines, deployments, and production releases.
- Follow software engineering best practices around security, scalability, observability, testing, documentation, and maintainability.
- Collaborate with architects, engineers, and business teams to translate requirements into scalable technical solutions.
Required Skills
- 7+ years of software/data engineering experience.
- Strong RDBMS and SQL skills, including query optimization and database design.
- Strong Python programming skills.
- Hands-on experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
- Strong experience with Google Cloud Spanner.
- Experience with Google Datastream / CDC and Google Dataflow.
- Good understanding of distributed systems and data synchronization.
- Strong data modeling skills.
- Proficiency with Git/code repositories, CI/CD, release management, and engineering best practices.
Good to Have
- Experience with Pub/Sub, Cloud Storage, Cloud Functions/Cloud Run, or other GCP services.
- Experience with database migration, replication, or hybrid cloud architectures.
- Experience designing highly available and multi-region applications.
- Familiarity with Agile development and automated testing.
- Ideal Candidate
- A hands-on senior engineer who combines strong database fundamentals with modern GCP engineering, can independently design and implement solutions, and follows disciplined software development and release practices.